Regatta London cancellation highlights pressures facing the river Thames

Adverse weather conditions forced Regatta London organisers last week to cancel the UK’s first mass paddlesports event, meant to take place last Sunday 29 September….

CANCELLATION: The Big Bottle Count has been cancelled due to the weather

Due to unsafe working conditions caused by the incessant rainfall we have decided to cancel the Big Bottle Count today. We apologise for any inconvenience…

Thames21 declares a Climate and Ecological Emergency

Today, 20 September 2019 a global climate strike is taking place where everyone is invited to come out to show how much they care about the environment. Children…

London Rivers Week showcases the benefits of rewilding rivers

More than 150 people took part in the launch of London Rivers Week in Thamesmead on Saturday 25 May and hundreds got involved in 45…

Call to rewild 100km of London’s rivers to help the city adapt to climate change

Press Release LONDON RIVERS WEEK 2019: Saturday 25 May – Sunday 2 June London, UK – 15 May 2019: London is the most vulnerable city in western…

23 thousand wet wipes discovered on stretch of Thames river bank

Other plastic waste found included menstrual products and microplastic glitter A record 23,000 wet wipes were counted and removed from one stretch of the Thames…

Single-use items to blame for majority of Thames pollution

More than 60% of litter would disappear from the Thames Basin if we moved away from single-use. That’s the claim from Thames21 and the Marine…

Wetland project we worked on celebrated in international documentary

Firs Farm wetland in Enfield is the focus of a documentary investigating how cities are tackling the issue of flooding worldwide. The PBS series, Sinking…

Thames21 wins prestigious award for its plastic monitoring programme

Thames21’s plastic monitoring citizen science project won a prestigious City award last night, less than a week after it released new data revealing the summer…

Plastic pollution impact of UK’s summer heatwave: Thames bears the brunt

PRESS RELEASE Thames21 and #OneLess plastic litter research suggests Londoners switched from fizzy drinks to still water as a result of the extremely hot weather,…